Improvement in hoop-skirts



' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY FREUDENBURG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,924, dated July 25, 1865.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY FREUDENBURG, of the city, county, and State ot' New York, have invented a new and useful or Improved Hoop-Skirt; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a perspective view of a hoopskirt having iny invention applied to it Fig. 2 represents a portion of the tubular web and clasps with the wire passing through the same, and Fig. 3 a vertical section of said web and wire.

The nature ofmy invention consists in acontinuous wire encircling in spiral form a frustum of a cone (as it were) from the base of the skirt to near the top, andpassingthrough tubes made in the web (or hanging strips of cloth) for the purpose, the wire and tube bcing rmly connected by means of clasps.

' In the drawings, A is a band, with buckle B forattachingtheskirtto thebody of the wearer, and from which are suspended strips of web O C, &c., having tubular openings dd, through which the spiral wire E is introduced and sustained. F F are clasps which connect the said wire E and web C firmly together. The spiral wire terminates nearthe upper part ot'the skirt in a leather facing, G, the wire portion of the skirt being completed by two or more segments the ends whereof are fastened in said l'acin'gs G, leaving an aperture, I, (when the beltisopen,) to passover the body ot the wearer.

I do not claim a hoop-shirt composed ot' a continuous or spiral wire, for suc-h is not new, nor do I claim a l1oop-skirt made up of several pieces of wire of which the ends are lapped and fastened together in front, forming rings in a. tubular web; but 4 Whatl do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The spiral wire, in combination with the tubular web, substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY FREUDENBURG.

Witnesses GHAs. MORRILL, A. NEILL. 

